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After a fun filled holiday of drinking, eating, sleeping and merry making I was back at the rig. Denise joined me for the afternoon which was a nice treat.

She undid the bolts joining the transmission to the engine except one. That is the tight one the big and husky man had to tackle. I screwed it up and sheared the bolt. Should have gotten her to do it I guess :-/ The remainder of the bolt is still through the transmission but there are no threads engaged, so with force in the right direction the transmission should disconnect from the engine. I just lubed and raised the engine, hopefully gravity will remove it by next week.

We also took the carpet out of the rig to expose the bolts holding the body to the chassis. I lubed and left those as well, they look a little too rusty to tackle right away and I didn't want to redisplay the impatient aspect of my gender again and shear some more bolts off.

Next week I'd like to have the engine and transmission disconnected from each other and the body mechanically disconnected (if not electrically) from the chassis.

Project cost: $1565 Needed some firewood (not counting transportation gas of course).